Exploring Topics & Creating a Research Proposal

My biggest struggle with writing has always been the first few lines. I have even rewritten the beginning of this blog more times than I am willing to admit. You can imagine the struggle I am having with creating a perfectly worded research proposal. The exercise that we did in class (writing for a few minutes nonstop) left me a little confused. The work that I got down was not what it should have been; I was left with a few manicured sentences not saying much when I should have had run-on sentences full of revolutionary ideas. However, after reading chapter 5 I have grasped on how I best brainstorm. I can plan better by making lists that I have no need to grammatically fix. I have made a list of all the communities I think that I have been a part of these past 4 years: band member, top of my class, key club, puppy foster mom, feminist, etc. According to the book, I will have to do preliminary research in order to narrow down to one topic that will have a sufficient amount of credible sources in order to establish a thorough argument. This will be greatly beneficial to my indecisive self. Once I have a topic established my research question will easily become a research proposal with sources of varying types that will strengthen my argument. This chapter has actually taught me so much about writing research papers, even though I have already done so many times in the past. The task suddenly seems a lot less frightening.